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HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Frankenthaler 6 Aug '80' (lower right); dedicated 'Happy Birthday dear André from Helen 11 Oct 1980.' (lower left)
acrylic and pastel on paper
1434 x 1434 in. (37.5 x 37.5 cm.)
Executed in 1980.
Provenance
André Emmerich, New York, gift of the artist
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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Lot Essay

"For me, as the picture develops, color always comes out of drawing. I never start out only with color. I start out as a pacemaker on a flat thing with four corners. But color is the first message on the picture plane. From there it takes its place as scale and drawing."
- Helen Frankenthaler

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